Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public Service trolleys had their front scoops or fenders wired up to prevent the derailing of cars from obstacles placed on the tracks by strikers. A three-year-old girl was ground to death under a fenderless trolley. Strikers dug up a city ordinance requiring fenders in position, caused the arrest of Herbert B. Flowers, president of Public Service, 27 non-union motormen...
...week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will...
...distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important showpeople who laugh at all his jokes. He gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five minutes at a private party on the ground that at a party his status must be either that of host or guest. His best shows were Bombo and Sinbad, his pictures The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. Last winter he improved his standing by marrying Ruby Keeler, a popular little tap-dancer tutored by Mary Louise...
Cigaret Butts & Forest Fires. A government plane dropped lighted cigaret and cigar butts over areas subject to forest fires to learn whether the butts can start such fires. They can, for all the cigars and most of the cigarets were still burning when searchers found them on the ground. Hence, last week, a Government warning against flipping lighted butts from planes...
Shortly after noon Germany time, 55 hours after she left Lakehurst, the Graf Zeppelin landed. A multitudinous crowd on the ground, fences, poles, roofs and steeples screamed joyously. Passengers debarked quickly. Count Albrecht Montgelas carried a fat bundle. It contained 52 ears of golden bantam corn, bon voyage gift of Mrs. William Crapo Durant. He fed them to his comrades that evening...